Box-fastener.



PATENTED APR. 4, 1905.

A. T. KRUSE. BOX FASTENBR.

APPLIOATION FILED APR. 11, 1904.

@JWNTOIR No. 786,299. Patented April 4, 1905.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALFRED T. KRUSE, OF DEFIANOE, OHIO ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGN- MENTS, TO THE AMERICAN STEEL PACKAGE COMPANY, OF DEFIANOE, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

BOX-FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 786,299, dated April 4, 1905.

Application filed April 11,1904. Serial No. 202,538.

To all whmn it may concern: or recess formed in the front portion of the lid Be it known that I, ALFRED T. Know, a or cover 2. o citizen of the United States, residing at De- 7 designates a depression or pocket formed fiance, in the county of Defiance and State of in the-lid or cover 2 just beneath and slightly 5 Ohio, have invented certain new and useful to the rear of the handle 5 and designed, to-

Improvements in Box-Fasteners, of which gether with the adjacent handle 5, to form a the following is a specification. convenient handhold for opening and clos- My invention relates to improvements in ing the lid. box-fasteners, and is especially designed for 8 designates a cross-bar formed within the Io use in connection with sheet-metal packingopening or recess 6 and which is a part of the cases used in the transportation and storage wire formed within the beading 4, formed of bottled liquids, &c. about the edges of the lid or cover 2.

The primary object of this invention is to 9 designates a spring latch or bar secured produce a generally improved device of this at its lower or base end to the front of the l 5 class which Will be exceedingly simple in concase by means of rivets, as shown, and bent struction and efficient in use and which will at its upper or free end to form a hook 10, be better suited to its intended purposes than conforming to the contour of the crossbar 8. any other device of the same class with which 11 designates an opening formed in the I am acquainted. front wall of the case opposite the spring- 20 With these ends in view the invention conlatch 9, and 12 designates a second opening sists in the novel construction, arrangement, formed in the spring-latch 9, which said openand combination of parts hereinafter deing 12, it will be seen, does not register with scribed, illustrated in the accompanying the opening 11, but is formed slightly out of drawings, and particularly pointed out in the alinement therewith, so that if a bar fitting 25 appended claims. said opening 11 is inserted therein it will en- Referring to the drawings forming a part gage the spring-latch 9, springing the same of this specification, Figure 1 is a top plan rearwardly and disengaging the hook 10 from view of a portion of a sheet-metal packingthe cross-bar 8, and the lid or cover 2 may be case provided with myimproved box-fastener. lifted by means of the handle 5.

30 Fig. 2 is a front view of the same. Fig. 3 is a When the lid or cover2 is dropped or closed, sectional view taken through lines a b of Figs. the cross-bar 8 will come into engagement 1 and 2. Fig. 4 is a detail view of one of the with the hook 10 of the spring latch or bar 9 8o supporting-stops mounted in the front corand spring the same rearwardly until said 11ers of the case and designed to take under cross-bar 8 has passed the hook 10, when the 3 5 the corners of the lid or cover and support the latter will snap into engagement therewith, same in its closed position. thus automatically locking the lid or cover in In the drawings, 1 designates a plate of its closed position. Should it be desired to sheet metal secured in any suitable manner seal the case, the wire of the seal is inserted to the front portion of the lid 2, intermediate and passed through the openings 11 and 12,

40 the ends thereof and mounted in the present formed in the case and spring-latch 9, respecinstance between two of the upwardly-extendtively, and up through the opening or recess ing ribs or flanges 3 of said lid or cover 2 and 6 and brought around and sealed, thus seto the rear of the beading 4, formed about the curely sealing the case and preventing the edges thereof. 5 designates an upwardly and contents thereof from being tampered with 5 rearwardly extending flange or handle formed in transportation or storage.

at the rear of said plate 1, and 6 designates an 13 designates supporting-stops mounted in opening or recess formed in the front portion the front corners of the case and designed 5 of said plate and registering with an opening to take under the corners of the lid or cover and support the same in its closed position and flush with the top or upper edges of the sides and ends of the case.

It will be seen that I provide a simple and eflicient locking device in which there are no projecting parts protruding beyond the case proper to interfere with the proper and economical stacking of the cases or to be caught, broken, or disarranged, and one which may be quickly sealed when desired.

Various changes in the form, proportion, and the minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the principles or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention.

Having thus described my invention, al though without having attempted to set forth all the forms in which it may be made or all the modes of its use, I declare that what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

1. A box-fastener for sheet-metal packingcases, consisting of a plate secured to the lid or cover and provided at its rear with a handle, an opening or recess formed in the front portion of said plate and cover, a cross-bar mounted in said opening or recess, and a spring-latch secured to the front portion of the case and provided with a hook adapted to take over and engage said cross-bar when the lid is closed.

2. In a box-fastener for sheet-metal packing-cases, the combination with a plate secured to the lid or cover and provided at its rear with a handle, an opening or recess formed in the front portion of said plate and cover, and a cross-bar mounted in said opening or recess; of a spring-latch secured to the front portion of the case, a hook formed at l the top of said spring-latch and adapted to engage said cross-bar, and an opening formed in the front wall of the case, opposite said spring-latch, wherethrough the said springlatch may be manipulated.

3. A box-fastener for sheet-metal packingcases, consisting of a plate secured to the lid or cover, a handle formed at the rear of said plate, an opening or recess formed in the front portion of said plate and cover, a crossbar secured in said opening or recess, a springlatch secured to the front portion of the case and provided with an opening, a hook formed at the top of said spring-latch and adapted to engage said cross-bar, and an opening formed in the front wall of the case opposite said springlatch, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

, ALFRED T. KRUSE.

Witnesses:

A. F. DIEHL, lVIAY PARTEE. 

